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Home Town Holland, TX
Last Address Georgetown, TX
Date of Passing Dec 25, 2009
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From Patriot Guard Riders:
28 Dec 2009 7:38 PM Quote Reply Alert
Austin Area Confirmed Mission:
The family of Mr. John Treuhardt has requested the Patriot Guard Riders attend his funeral and interment services in honor of his military service to our country. Mr. Treuhardt enlisted in the Army Air Corps when he came of age and trained to serve as a Gunner on B-24 aircraft. He was scheduled to deploy to the Pacific Theater when the war ended and served the remainder of his enlistment stationed at Carswell AFB in Ft Worth, Texas. Mr. Treuhardt died on Christmas day, 2009
Date/Time: Wednesday, 30 December 2009. Funeral service scheduled for 1400 hrs (2:00 pm)
Location: Gabriels Funeral Home, 393 North IH-35, Georgetown, TX. We will stage at the funeral home. Directions: The funeral home is located on the southbound frontage road of IH35. If traveling north on IH35, take exit 264, cross over to southbound side. Funeral home is located immediately north of the La Quinta hotel. Map link: http://tinyurl.com/yh5allp
Timeline: 1245-1315 staging (12:45-1:15 pm) 1315 briefing 1325 flag line in place.
Wx: Mostly sunny, morning low of 36, high 58. Please bring drinking water.
Notes: Please arrive fed, fueled, and hydrated. Hot beverages & facilities available inside the funeral home. At the conclusion of the funeral service we will accompany the procession to IOOF cemetery in Georgetown, approx. 4 miles, where we will establish a flag line for the interment service.
Ride Captain: Andy "andyman" Lough, ALough@Austin.rr.com, 512-441-9297 Flag Wrangler: Robert Stancil Please make plans to stand tall and silent in honor of Mr. Treuhardt service to our country.
Mark Wells Austin OPS RC
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From Gabriels Funeral Home:
John Coleman "J.C." Treuhardt (March 17, 1926 - December 25, 2009)
Enveloped in the love and concern of family and friends over the months of his illness, John Coleman ?J.C.? Treudhardt left early on Christmas morning to spend the holiday with his recently deceased daughter, Tami, and others dear to him. John was born on St. Patrick?s Day, March 17, 1926 in Holland, Texas to Walter John and Radie Burns Treuhardt. His ?little? brother, Don Cleetes Treuhardt, came along five years later. The Treuhardt family lived on their family farm near Little River for the first six years of his life, and then moved to Georgetown where their grandparents had previously settled from Switzerland.
At the request of his Aunt Mitty Ischy, J.C. entered Miss Annie?s first grade class, and attended Georgetown schools until his graduation in 1943. While there, he played tennis, winning a regional meet, played baseball and football, appeared in school plays, and was his senior class president.
He started to Texas A&M at College Station while waiting for his call to the Air Corps. His lifelong interest in planes and flying began with his seeing a plane land in a cotton patch near Granger when he was quite young, and was fueled by his reading and model airplane building --- from balsa and tissue paper. J.C. voluntarily enlisted in the Army Air Corps, was trained as a gunner on a B-29, and made many flights while stationed in Texas, Florida, Colorado, and Nebraska, and was scheduled for deployment to the Pacific Theater. The war ended a week before his crew?s departure date. He spent his remaining service time as a member of an ambulance crew in Fort Worth.
He was a good marksman, and was a member of the American Rifle Association for many years.
The summer after his high school graduation, J.C. had his first date with his future bride, Doris Beverly Huie, also of Georgetown. Following a ?whirlwind? five-year courtship, the two were married on November 23, 1949. Last month they marked their 60th Anniversary, but not in their hoped-for manner; he was too ill. He often remarked to friends that the two of them still not only loved each other, but liked each other!
After the service, John had returned to A&M, his wife had finished school at UT, and the two moved to nearby Caldwell where she had her first teaching job and where the spent their first two years. Since he and his father had started a Studebaker auto agency, he decided it was time for a move back to Georgetown. There, he continued his education at UT, changing from aeronautical engineering, which, just following the war, was not a promising major, to architecture. Beverly continued her teaching career in Georgetown, while he was in school. He began architectural practice in the area after receiving his license.
After eight years of marriage, the couple began their family with the birth of their daughter, Tamara ?Tami? Carol in 1957 and their son, John Lewis, in 1960. Their grandson, Kelson, Tami?s son was born in 1980. Their daughter?s husband, Robert Hernlund, their son?s wife, Judy, and their grandson?s wife, Lauren, completed the immediate family. He also enjoyed kinship with numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews, and other relatives.
During the last years of his practice, John joined the staff at UT, where he was in charge of ongoing building on UT medical campuses at San Antonio, Galveston, and Dallas. Some of the projects he most enjoyed were the installation of the first MRI unit in this part of the country in Dallas, and the restoration of the hospital ?Big Red? and the Moody mansion in Galveston.
J. C. was involved in the work of a number of organizations in the course of his lifetime, including the Boy Scouts of America as a troop leader and cub master of Den 151, the Georgetown Heritage Society, the Georgetown Historical and Architectural Commission as a long-time member and chairman, the Williamson County Gem and Mineral Society as member, president, and show chairman, and the Georgetown Native Plant Society. Just recently, he joined his wife as a member of the First United Methodist Church as a transfer.
He was a beloved son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and cousin, and had earned the love and friendship of many others. J.C.?s family ties are long and full of those who love him and cherish his memory including, his wife, Doris Beverly Huie Treuhardt of Georgetown; son, John Lewis Treuhardt and wife Judy of Thousand Oaks, California; grandson, Kelson Treuhardt and wife Lauren of Austin; brother, Don Cleetes Treuhardt and wife Ann of Baytown. Other family members include, Pam Henderson of Baytown, Heather and Aaron Henderson of Baytown, Ruth Hubbard of Austin, Kay Winter and husband Harlan of Austin, Fred Hubbard and wife Onie of Round Rock, Linda Hubbard of Austin, Betty Dickinson and husband John of North Richland Hills, Joyce Burns of North Richland Hills, Margaret Kyser of Austin, LaVern Whited of Temple, Mary Lou Seth and husband Carl of Austin, ?Buddy? Baker and wife Melba of Holland, Nissa Johnson of Holland, Yvette Johnson of Holland, Georgette Barandiaran, Jose Barandiaran and ?Gabby? Barandiaran all of Round Rock; along with a host of other loving friends.
Friends and family may gather for visitation at The Gabriels Funeral Chapel, 393 North IH 35, Georgetown, Texas on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 from 6:00PM to 8:00PM. Services celebrating J.C.?s life will be held at 2:00PM at The Gabriels Funeral Chapel with Pastor Everett Schrum officiating. Interment will follow at IOOF Cemetery in Georgetown, with military honors being provided by the Lackland Air Force Honor Guard. Also riding in honor of J.C.?s service to his country will be the Patriot Guard Riders of Austin, Texas.
Memorial donations in J.C.?s memory may be made to the First United Methodist Church, 410 East University Avenue, Georgetown, TX 78626, The Caring Place, 2000 Railroad, Georgetown, TX 78626, Red Cloud Indian School, 100 Mission Drive, Pine Ridge, South Dakota 57770, Lakota Schools, 5572 Princeton Road, Liberty Township, Ohio 45011-9726.
World War II
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Description Overview of World War II
World War II killed more people, involved more nations, and cost more money than any other war in history. Altogether, 70 million people served in the armed forces during the war, and 17 million combatants died. Civilian deaths were ever greater. At least 19 million Soviet civilians, 10 million Chinese, and 6 million European Jews lost their lives during the war.
World War II was truly a global war. Some 70 nations took part in the conflict, and fighting took place on the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe, as well as on the high seas. Entire societies participated as soldiers or as war workers, while others were persecuted as victims of occupation and mass murder.
World War II cost the United States a million causalities and nearly 400,000 deaths. In both domestic and foreign affairs, its consequences were far-reaching. It ended the Depression, brought millions of married women into the workforce, initiated sweeping changes in the lives of the nation's minority groups, and dramatically expanded government's presence in American life.
The War at Home & Abroad
On September 1, 1939, World War II started when Germany invaded Poland. By November 1942, the Axis powers controlled territory from Norway to North Africa and from France to the Soviet Union. After defeating the Axis in North Africa in May 1941, the United States and its Allies invaded Sicily in July 1943 and forced Italy to surrender in September. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies landed in Northern France. In December, a German counteroffensive (the Battle of the Bulge) failed. Germany surrendered in May 1945.
The United States entered the war following a surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. Pacific fleet in Hawaii. The United States and its Allies halted Japanese expansion at the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and in other campaigns in the South Pacific. From 1943 to August 1945, the Allies hopped from island to island across the Central Pacific and also battled the Japanese in China, Burma, and India. Japan agreed to surrender on August 14, 1945 after the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Consequences:
1. The war ended Depression unemployment and dramatically expanded government's presence in American life. It led the federal government to create a War Production Board to oversee conversion to a wartime economy and the Office of Price Administration to set prices on many items and to supervise a rationing system.
2. During the war, African Americans, women, and Mexican Americans founded new opportunities in industry. But Japanese Americans living on the Pacific coast were relocated from their homes and placed in internment camps.
The Dawn of the Atomic Age
In 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt, warning him that the Nazis might be able to build an atomic bomb. On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi, an Italian refugee, produced the first self-sustained, controlled nuclear chain reaction in Chicago.
To ensure that the United States developed a bomb before Nazi Germany did, the federal government started the secret $2 billion Manhattan Project. On July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert near Alamogordo, the Manhattan Project's scientists exploded the first atomic bomb.
It was during the Potsdam negotiations that President Harry Truman learned that American scientists had tested the first atomic bomb. On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress, released an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. Between 80,000 and 140,000 people were killed or fatally wounded. Three days later, a second bomb fell on Nagasaki. About 35,000 people were killed. The following day Japan sued for peace.
President Truman's defenders argued that the bombs ended the war quickly, avoiding the necessity of a costly invasion and the probable loss of tens of thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives. His critics argued that the war might have ended even without the atomic bombings. They maintained that the Japanese economy would have been strangled by a continued naval blockade, and that Japan could have been forced to surrender by conventional firebombing or by a demonstration of the atomic bomb's power.
The unleashing of nuclear power during World War II generated hope of a cheap and abundant source of energy, but it also produced anxiety among large numbers of people in the United States and around the world.
